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The familial aggregation of psychotic symptoms in bipolar disorder pedigrees.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Aug 2001
Potash J B, Willour V L, Chiu Y F, Simpson S G, MacKinnon D F, Pearlson G D, DePaulo J R, McInnis M G
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OBJECTIVE: Symptomatic overlap between affective disorders and schizophrenia has long been noted. More recently, family and linkage studies have provided some evidence for overlapping genetic susceptibility between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. If shared genes are responsible for the psychotic manifestations of both disorders, these genes may result in clustering of psychotic symptoms in some bipolar...
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